James Wood

“This doesn’t happen to me!”…. that was what went through my head when the doctor told me I had broken my back & damaged my spinal cord.
I was just getting to a great stage in my life, living independently, great job & career options, nice car & a couple of motorbikes. Good friends and a steady relationship.

Alan Newey

Can you imagine being right handed & losing your right arm above the elbow!

A workplace incident changed Alan’s life forever & he is still dealing with the effects of losing a limb! Alan shares his story to inform employees that when you get hurt at work it changes EVERYTHING!

What We Do

Our Safety Speakers have all been affected by workplace injury or fatality, but they are not safety professionals. The stories we tell are not about Statistics or procedures, they are real life messages on how getting hurt or killed while doing our job has changed their lives.

Real Life Safety from Real Life People

What people say

Paul Burns – Manager Rail Infrastructure Maintenance

James story is very powerful and he speaks openly and honestly about his bad choice resulting in a life long sentence. Bloody Brilliant.

Lisa Foster – Health Safety & Training

Thank you James for speaking at our recent Safety Summit, our day was all about “Who are you Safe for?” Your Choices talk hit all the right notes and you had our attendees captivated. They appreciated your “Down to Earth” nature and your candour in speaking about your very personal experience.

Jim Batey

This is the second time I have utilised James Wood to speak at a Safety Day and he has not let us down, with his emotive talks indicating the choices he had and what the choices each and every one of the audience will have in the future and who may be affected. Highly skilled […]

Stephen Pelchen Ballarat

Michelle’s story was direct, relevant and brought a few tears to the group. Michelle’s story fitted our target audience perfectly, it showed the ripple effect of such a tragedy. Courageously presented, well articulated and deeply personal.

Dan Crompton – Site Manager

Presentation by James was exactly what our site needed. His story further reinforced the importance of always ensuring you make the right decision or choice whether at work or home. Exciting to see many of the team engaged throughout the discussion and absorbing James story.

Fatigue

Communication

Suffered third-degree burns to 35% of his body...all due to a lack of communication

Safety Speakers for your People

For many thousands of years we have shared stories, long before the internet & Google we have shared information in the form of a story or a tale.

CNBSafe Safety Speakers have adapted this approach in the way that we deliver information to your business. At CNBSafe Safety Speakers we have an injured worker or family member that can visit your workplace or safety conference and share their safety messages and experiences with your people!

Our Safety Speakers are willing to help you on your safety journey by telling how an injury or fatality changed their lives and affected many other people.

How we can help you

We want to work with you to come up with some solutions specific to your workplace. We can tailor a training package for you that can include a Safety Speaker to visit your workplace, Safety Day or Conference, a workshop to identify & discuss issues specific to where you work and we will take the guess work out of what you need to come up with for your next safety theme.

We want to change the way employees think about safety, the old days of being told what to do or doing it because you “Have” to do it are gone!

Let us work with you to make your people want to go home to their families without injury & to make working safe the only way to do the job that we do!